Quotes About Originality

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

The best way to make a show that's going to resonate is to make a show that you'd love.

I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.

I think being true to yourself is ultimately the best way of living.

I try not to think about writers who came before me when I'm writing myself. If I did, given the abundance of literary talent Scotland - and Edinburgh in particular - has bestowed upon the world, I wouldn't be able to get as much as a sentence written.

I've never had the passion of wanting to be the next Monica or Beyonce or anything like that.

When TV companies stop coming up with ideas, and I've got to go and do 'Celebrity Big Brother,' I don't want that to happen.

The big difference between us and other people who produce content is that we started doing this to make things that we wanted to make.

I'm a really big fan of Monique Heart. I always think she has some really creative ideas.

Sometimes it's better to have a big idea and push the envelope.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

That's the biggest thing: be kind and be original.

Really, I think the biggest thing is just playing your game and doing what you do.

No one wants to hear me doing my best Garrison Keillor... I think that he's inimitable; he's one in a billion.

I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?

I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.

I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

I'm not like any other artist, point blank.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

You blows who you is.

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.